Potentia of Poverty

Margherita Pascucci has published five monographs, including Philosophical readings of Shakespeare.'Thou art the thing itself'; Macchina Capitale. Genesi e struttura dello sfruttamento; Causa sui. Saggio sul capitale e il virtuale; and Potenza della povertà. Marx legge Spinoza. Antonio Negri was an independent researcher and world-renowned theorist, who taught political philosophy at the University of Padua, the University of Vincennes, and College Internationale de Philosophie. With Michael Hardt, he coauthored the best-selling trilogy, Empire, Multitude, and Commonwealth.

Preface to the Italian Edition by Antonio Negri

Author’s Preface to the English Edition


Introduction


1 Self-Cause and Cause through an Other [causa sui-causa ab alio]

 1.1 Value and Common Notions

 1.2 The Definition of Value and of the Character of Form-Equivalent

 1.3 Common Notions as ‘koinai ennoiai’

 1.4 How Are Common Notions Linked to Affects?


2 Marx’s Notebook on Spinoza: Imagination and Revolutionary Praxis

 2.1 Theological-Political Treatise

 2.2 Imagination

 2.3 Berlin 1841: Letters: umwälzende Praxis [Revolutionary Praxis]


3 The ‘potentia’ of Poverty: For an Economy of Joy

 3.1 Atom of Virtuality and the Anticipatory Abstraction

 3.2 The Establishment of a-Conceptual Relations

 3.3 The Virtuality of History

 3.4 Excursus on the ‘potentia’ (Ontological) and How This Defines Poverty

 3.5 How the dunamis-Virtue Is the Spinozan potentia

 3.6 The Virtuality of Our Time

 3.7 Potentia and Dismeasure


4 The Production of Subjectivity: Labour, Poverty and the Free Man: Or, the ‘potentia’ of Labour

 4.1 The Virtuality of Subjectivity

 4.2 On Labour and Poverty

 4.3 Potentia and the Intensive

 4.4 The Plus of Being


Selected Bibliography

Index